LC 274 - Integrative Seminar: ENG 349/POL 354 Ireland: The Literature of a Nation

Three Credits
Spring Semester

This is a travel LC, and the integrative seminar will comprise preparations for travel to Ireland and a 9-day long visit to major Irish literary and political sites. The reading for the course will be linked to significant sites in our literary/political tour of Ireland. In the west, we will visit W. B. Yeats’ tower (Thoor Ballylee) and grave; Coole Park (the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory); the childhood home of James Joyce’s wife, Nora Barnacle; and the city of Galway. In the east we will spend time at the Writer’s Museum in Dublin, the Joyce Museum, the National Museum and literary sites around Dublin, including the Abbey Theatre. Students will enjoy academic lectures on the literature and politics of Irish independence and development and will attend theatre productions and poetry readings.